The first trip to the dentist or 10 tips for parents, how not to scare the baby

1. Don’t scare your child with a dentist! Just like any other doctor. Scaring the baby with a visit to the doctor and injections, etc. You are creating problems for yourself in the future. After such intimidation, the child will be afraid of doctors, will cry and throw tantrums before the visit.
2. Don’t turn a trip to the children’s dentist into something extraordinary. Let it be a normal thing, nothing special, as if you are going to the store. If the mother is afraid of the dentist, or if she begins to worry about the baby, about his behavior, then these worries are transmitted to the child. If the mother cannot cope with her emotions, let someone else go with the baby (dad, grandmother, etc.).
3. Tell your child who a pediatric dentist is and what he does. Do not deceive, but also do not use difficult, unclear, and especially scary words.
4. Find a good specialist who knows how to work with children. Such a children’s dentist knows how to find an approach to a child, how not to frighten him.
5. Play at home with the dentist and the patient. Demonstrate in the game all the manipulations that will need to be done at the doctor’s, which he will do with the baby. Sit in a chair, open your mouth, use sticks to simulate a drill, etc.
6. Do not use words that can scare the child. Forget the phrases: «DO NOT BE AFRAID!« «IT’S NOT SCARY«, »THEY WON’T DO ANYTHING TO YOU, BUT ONLY LOOK» (usually, the dentist does something, but does something, touches the teeth with a special tool, uses a mirror, etc., and the child already understands: mom deceived me), »IT WILL NOT HURT!» In such phrases, NO is not perceived, and the child begins to suspect something is wrong.
7. Replace the words familiar to the dentist with others. Injection = sprinkle with water, freeze the tooth so it doesn’t hurt. To drill = to drill, to expel a worm from a tooth. To put a seal = to seal the hole of a worm with chewing gum. And so on.
8. Go to the doctor at a time of day when the child is sleepy, full and satisfied.
9. If a preventive examination is planned, then your calmness, story and play at the dentist will be enough. At the reception, behave calmly, as usual, as if nothing unusual is happening. Do not try to give the child more attention, care, caress, so as not to sharpen his attention on this.
10. And lastly, take your child to the doctor more often so that it becomes a regular routine for him. Then the treatment will be painless and there will be no fear.

The children’s dentist in our clinic always uses a special approach to the treatment of teeth in young patients. We try to do everything so that children’s dentistry Doc. Ali’s Dental Clinic became another interesting place, visiting which would bring only positive emotions to the baby. When coming to the reception, the child watches cartoons, gets acquainted with new toys, and is sure to receive one of them as a gift. He returns home with a Certificate of a young patient of a dental clinic.